Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go
by Arthur Hugh Clough
English poet. His first poem of note, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich (1848) is written in classical Hexameters and tells the story of an Oxford scholar who marries a 'Scotch lassie'. Amours de Voyage (1858) is similar in its treatment of religious doubt, class conflict and romantic love. Clough's dissatisfaction with the attitudes of the Victorian age is most forcefully expressed in two poems which were not published until after his death: 'Dypsichus', which he described as dealing with the 'conflict between a tender conscience and the world'; and 'The Latest Decalogue', a biting satire on Victorian morality. His collected Poems became very popular when they were published in 1862.
Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go
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Where lies the land to which the ship would go? On sunny noons upon the deck's smooth face, On stormy nights while wild north-westers rave, Where lies the land to which the ship would go? |